Barabás Explained

Barabás
Pushpin Map:Hungary
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Barabás in Hungary
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Hungary
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg}}
Subdivision Type2:County
Area Total Km2:38.19
Area Footnotes:[1]
Postal Code:4397
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Area Code:+36 45
Area Code Type:Area code
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Total Type:Total
Population Total:746
Population Density Km2:auto
Population Density Urban Km2:auto
Population Density Metro Km2:auto
Population As Of:2012
Population Footnotes:[2]

Barabás is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.

Jews settled in Barabás in the middle of the 19th century.[3] The synagogue of the Orthodox community was built in 1910. There is a Jewish cemetery on the site.[4]

In 1944, after the German occupation, all the Jews of the village were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp;[5] only two of them survived after the war.[6]

Geography

It covers an area of 38.190NaN0 and has a population of 855 people (2001).

References

  1. http://www.ksh.hu/apps/!cp.hnt2.telep?nn=26480 Barabás
  2. http://www.ksh.hu/apps/!cp.hnt2.telep?nn=26480 Barabás
  3. https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/NEDA_nemzetisegi_Zsido_1840-1941/?pg=97&layout=s&query=%20Barab%C3%A1s Census of Hungarian Jews, 1993
  4. http://www.izraelitatemetok.hu/index.php/barabas/ the jewish cemetery in Barabás
  5. https://yvng.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=he&s_id=&s_lastName=&s_firstName=&s_place=Barabas&s_dateOfBirth=&cluster=true Documentation of the village's Jews murdered in the Holocaust
  6. https://dbs.anumuseum.org.il/skn/en/c6/e248498/Place/Barabas The Jewish community in Barabás on the website of the Museum of the Jewish People

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